The Sacred Trigram

At the end of the Qin dynasty, Emperor Gaozu of Han raised a rebellion after slaying a white serpent. Before it died, the serpent swore that even as a ghost, it would never let the descendants of the Liu family go unpunished. Later, Wang Mang destroyed the Western Han dynasty, and the Han dynasty was split in two. The Liu clan and the Mang clan became mortal enemies, locked in endless conflict.

Two thousand years later.

Liu Zilong’s wife dreamed that a great white snake was beheaded, then became pregnant.

The day their son was born, strange signs appeared in the heavens, and a once-in-decades blizzard struck.

He was delighted that his son seemed exceptionally gifted, never knowing about the feud that began two thousand years ago…

Now he was facing a crisis in life:

[He built a business from nothing, only to see it suddenly collapse]

[Unwilling to accept defeat, he gambled everything on the stock market and became trapped in a quagmire]

[Friends and family kicked him while he was down]

[His marriage was on the brink of collapse]

[When life falls from its peak, it doesn’t even pause on the way down]

[Buried in debt, how could he save himself?]

[Could a middle-aged man still rise from the ashes?]

[When Liu Zilong used his family’s heirloom peachwood divination blocks to tell his own fortune]

[All he wanted was a favorable reading]

[He had no idea]

[That two thousand years ago]

[This was a dreaded token]

[Its readings always foretold certain death]